Hi Gandal, There are three metadata domains: EXIF, IPTC, and XMP. You can see the contents of all of them by running 'exiv2 -pa' on a filename.
It's likely that Shotwell wrote the tags to XMP when you didn't see them in IPTC. Currently Shotwell tries to write to domains where metadata already exists, but we agree that the behavior you saw is not ideal, and we're planning to fix it in 0.9 by having Shotwell write the metadata to all domains. Cheers, Vera On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, gandal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I installed Shotwell 0.8.1 (on Xubuntu 10.10) and I'm experiencing some > problems with IPTC tags. > In Preferences I checked "Write tags, titles, and other metadata to photo > files". > I noticed that Shotwell doesn't write IPTC keywords in the jpg photos taken > with my Canon camera. > Only if I write an IPTC keyword in the file using the command: > iptc -a Keywords -v "value" "filename.jpg" > then Shotwell become able to modify the Keyword into the jpg file. I tested > IPTC tags with this command: > iptc "filename.jpg" > and with XNview under Windows. > It seems that Shotwell doesn't write IPTC tags if no IPTC data exists in the > file. > I'm a bit confused, because in http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3044 this > ticket is said: > "Shotwell has a list of metadata tags for each type of metadata (titles, > keywords/tags, ratings, etc.) If none of the metadata domains is present > for that particular type, it uses the first one in the list regardless if > the domain is present or not" > -- > View this message in context: > http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/Writing-IPTC-tags-tp33024p33024.html > Sent from the Shotwell mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
